IBM Introduces New Software to Address Growing Digital Sovereignty Imperative

IBM Introduces New Software to Address Growing Digital Sovereignty Imperative

By PR Newswire
Publication Date: 2026-01-15 05:01:00

Purpose-built to enable organizations to deploy their own secured, compliant and automated environments for AI-ready sovereign workloads

ARMONK, N.Y., Jan. 15, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced IBM Sovereign Core, the industry’s first AI-ready sovereign-enabled software for enterprises, governments and service providers to build, deploy and manage AI-ready sovereign environments. Organizations around the world are facing a growing imperative to exercise control over their technology infrastructure. Driven by evolving regulatory requirements, and the need for auditable governance, enterprises and governments are seeking self-managed environments where they maintain complete operational authority, particularly as they deploy AI workloads that amplify sovereignty concerns.

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Digital sovereignty goes beyond data residency. It encompasses who operates and controls the technology environment, how data is…